Another B.s. Media Steroid Story On Cbs News

[del1964]

Tweet(CBS) Patrick Koegan was still in high school when he decided he needed to change his body image.

"So many people, especially teen-agers, feel self-conscious about their bodies, and if it bothers you that much, you're willing to go to any extreme to change that," says Koegan.

He went to the gym seven days a week, but, as CBS News Correspondent Jane Clayson reports, working out wasn't enough. So he, like millions of other young men in this country, started taking illegal, anabolic steroids.

"People would go, 'Wow, look at you, you're the picture of health,'" he says. "And I'd laugh."

Before long, his blood pressure was through the roof, his hair was falling out and his temper was uncontrollable.

"I was a textbook specimen of 'roid rage," he says. "You wake up pissed off, and the rest of the day you get more and more angry."

The number of young men using steroids has skyrocketed. Last year, nearly half a million teenage boys used steroids.

Dr. Harrison Pope, of Harvard Medical School, has been studying steroid use for 17 years.

"A large number of teen-agers and young adult men who use steroids are taking them purely for personal appearance," says Pope. "These people have no athletic aspirations at all."

Pope gave a computer test to boys as young as 11 years old.

"When they were asked to choose the ideal male body, the average body that they chose is a body that could be attained effectively only with steroids," says Pope.

And when they had added all the muscle the computer would allow, Pope says, some of them asked, "Doesn't it go any higher than that?"

Parents often don't recognize the problem or the dangers.

"If your kid comes through the door and he's got no neck and his traps are out to here, the kid's got a drug problem," Koegan says.

[Badgermoon]

Tweet"These people have no athletic aspirations at all"... so what?
It's ok for a woman to have surgery to have fat sucked out or boobs, butt, lipps, added.... wrinkles removed, noses changed, and whatever else they want. But, if we choose to enhance our selves with the addition of hormones (did I forget menopause?) we're sick drug addicts....

WTF?

[del1964]

TweetI just can't believe the shit that guy was saying on television. It just sets us back every time an idiot like that gets on the news and the reporter just goes "yeah....uh huh....oh my god..." The sky is falling, the sky is falling. He really went out of his way to emphasize the roid rage thing. "I wake up pissed off and angry and then it gets worse as the day goes on." Or words to that effect. jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

[Canuck4]

TweetThe kid got a drug problem?
Lol
Ok.

[swassy]

Tweeteven if it was true big deal roid rage, thats not nearly as bad as some of the side effects you hear about.

[prolangtum]

TweetMy roid rage is so bad when i wake up, i usually kill a few puppies to calm down.

[habs]

Tweetwow that's some bs.